>>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> 07/07/11 6:36 PM >>>
>On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 04:56:23PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 07.07.11 at 15:59, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > + bar0 = pci_conf_read32 (b, d, f, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0);
>>
>> Why would a serial port only be allowed to be on the port specified
>> with BAR0? E.g. if you have a serial card with multiple ports, multiple
>> BARs could be candidates.
>>
>> Also, why would the first one found be it?
>
>Because that is usually COM1. You can still do com1=115200,8n1,magic
>com2=115200,8n1,0xd900,0 to have both of them available.
But the handling here is being called for com1= and com2=
equally. For something not just for somebody's special purposes,
the index from the calling function should minimally be passed
(and the BAR to look at adjusted accordingly).
Also I wonder why the token is "magic" rather than, say, "pci".
Jan
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